Lilian Jarvis
Family Practice
June 1994
Flexibility is an important part of fitness. But just how flexible do you need to be and what is the best way to work at it?
The answer to the first part of the question depends largely on your…

Lilian Jarvis
Family Practice
May 1994
A recent article on body language in the Financial Post states “posture is one of the most neglected power tools. And where your head sits has a lot to do with posture and the power that…

Lilian Jarvis
Family Practice
April 1994
“Chest out, shoulders back, chin up!” for long the military mandate for standing at attention, is still regarded by many as the correct procedure for standing straight. Other regimens…

Lilian Jarvis
Family Practice
March 1994
Beginning with birth and in many instances throughout life, breathing deeply is an imperative. It is essential in physical exertion of any kind and it is, as well, a means of releasing…

March 26, 1994

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Family Practice, February 21, 1994.
Any book on back care that has been written in the past dozen or so years almost certainly includes the pelvic tilt in its list of ways to alleviate back pain. Though it’s scarcely a panacea, for the…

Lilian Jarvis
Family Practice
December 1993
In a previous article, a distinction was made between cardiovascular fitness, which results from activities, and “fit”-ness, which is a condition in which the body is ready for activities.…

Lilian Jarvis
Family Practice
December 1993
As the counterbalance to activity, rest is as much a bodily need as food or water, and the ability to be fully rested is something everyone wants and needs, doctors no exception. But…

Lilian Jarvis
Family Practice
December 1993
Much has been written about the effects of stress on the body, including the joy of it, but there is one source of stress that would appear so far to have been, if not overlooked, at…

Lilian Jarvis
Family Practice
September 1993
Although stress resulting from the complications of life was referred to as far back as 100-200 B.C. in The Yellow Emperor,the oldest extant major Chinese medical text, the complications…

Lilian Jarvis
Family Practice
September 1993
“Fit”-ness First
After some 15 years of impregnating the public consciousness with the health merits of fitness (or, instilling in the minds of the public the health merits of…

Lilian Jarvis
Family Practice
April 1993
Children begin ballet for a variety of reasons, often because a parent feels it will develop grace or better posture, or it could be that, because of some genetic weakness, injury or illness,…